blank Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (CNN)Three officers are feared dead after a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, officials said. Kip Holden, the mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish Kip Holden, said authorities were still trying to get a handle on the situation, but added, "The count is three officers dead possibly." The victims may include police officers and sheriff's deputies "There is still an active scene. They are investigating," he said. "Right now we are trying to get our arms around everything." The shooter is believed to be down as well, Holden said. "Everything is moving fast and I have not been able to verify everything," he said. Authorities did not immediately say where the Sunday morning shooting occurred, or release additional details. But Baton Rouge Police Cpl. L. J. McKneely said "multiple" officers were down. He couldn't elaborate on the extent of their injuries. The scene, however, is contained, McKneely said. Developing story - more to come http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/baton-route-police-shooting/index.html?adkey=bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) Link says it's now up to 7 officers shot with 3 dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nogib Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 This endless cycle needs to stop. Can't the gun-crazy psychos just calm down and get some help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Nogib said: This endless cycle needs to stop. Can't the gun-crazy psychos just calm down and get some help? I suggest waiting a little while before hoping on the anti-gun bandwagon, we don't know why this shooting happened yet. As we saw just 3 days ago if someone wants to kill there are other equally effective ways to do it. psmoked and DocM 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted July 17, 2016 Global Moderator Share Posted July 17, 2016 Though early ... in my opinion they were probably ambushed. Jesus Christ ... these poor cops and their families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 I hate the copycat effect. psmoked 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted July 17, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted July 17, 2016 When is this going to end. Might not be a copycat. BLM called for violence. blank and psmoked 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) A local source. Sounds like he's on a cop hunt. http://www.wbrz.com/news/3-officers-dead-after-shooting-near-brpd-hq Quote 3 officers dead after shooting near BRPD HQ BATON ROUGE - Police have closed streets between Baton Rouge Police Headquarters and I-12 where law enforcement officers have been shot. Sources say two Baton Rouge Police officers and one East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office deputy are dead following the shooting. Another officer was critically injured. EBRSO confirmed multiple officers from both BRPD and EBRSO sustained injuries in the shooting and were taken to area hospitals. There is no word yet on the extent of all of the injuries. A witness told WBRZ News 2, a man was dressed in black with his face covered shooting indiscriminately when he walked out between a convenience store and car wash across from Hammond Air Plaza. Shots were fired around 9 a.m. Sunday. The exact location of the business where the shooting took place has yet to be released. A very large manhunt began immediately with officers hurrying to contain the scene. Both lanes of Airline Highway were shut down from Goodwood to Old Hammond and from Old Hammond to Drusilla Drive. LA DOTD confirmed the closures were related to police presence in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted July 17, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted July 17, 2016 BREAKING NEWS 3 BATON ROUGE OFFICERS KILLED, 3 WOUNDED; 1 SUSPECT REPORTED DEAD, 2 MAY BE AT LARGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) Don't know if it's been confirmed yet but now people are saying there are multiple shooters with 1 being "down" and at least 1 other on the run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted July 17, 2016 Subscriber² Share Posted July 17, 2016 Just now, trag3dy said: Don't know if it's been confirmed yet but now people are saying there are multiple shooters with 1 being "down" and at least 1 other on the run. It is in the above link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Updated from that link "A suspect was also dead in a gun battle with police. Two other suspects may also be at large, officials said." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) Bunch of idiots. Sickening. I get it, people are upset at police and in this day and age, should not have to be so much. However, in this day, should be able to fight for what you believe in without violence. These actions are not helping their cause either. It's is helping the other side. And I suspect many are using these issues as an excuse for violence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, jjkusaf said: Though early ... in my opinion they were probably ambushed. My bet to considering it was a popular cop place. Bunch of cowards. +Gary7 and psmoked 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) Quote (CNN)Update 2:45 p.m.: The dead suspect in the Baton Rouge shooting was wearing all black and was wearing a mask, Baton Rouge Police Department Sgt. Don Coppola said. Coppola said he did not know what the mask looked like, but that it was "some type of mask to conceal (the shooter's) identity." -- One suspect is dead, and two others may be at large -- Police are looking for anyone wearing army fatigues, all black or possibly a mask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 And so it continues... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/17/officer-shot-in-vicious-attack-in-milwaukee/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctebah Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 3 hours ago, Gary7 said: When is this going to end. Might not be a copycat. BLM called for violence. Where? Stoffel 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depicus Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) "It's my understanding that they [the officers] had responded to an initial shooting incident," Casey Rayborn Hicks, public affairs officer for the sheriff's office, told local TV station WAFB. So might not be BLM or copycat, just another senseless gun fight between gangs. Added: "Witness Brady Vancel told WAFB that he saw what may have been gang members shooting at each other before police arrived." So just a gang fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) NBC News is also reporting Baton Rouge was an ambush http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/baton-rouge-police-ambush/three-baton-rouge-officers-killed-three-injured-ambush-n611101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted July 17, 2016 Global Moderator Share Posted July 17, 2016 17 minutes ago, Depicus said: "It's my understanding that they [the officers] had responded to an initial shooting incident," Casey Rayborn Hicks, public affairs officer for the sheriff's office, told local TV station WAFB. So might not be BLM or copycat, just another senseless gun fight between gangs. Added: "Witness Brady Vancel told WAFB that he saw what may have been gang members shooting at each other before police arrived." So just a gang fight. That is going against what Col. Mike Edmonson, Superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, is saying right now on CNN. They now believe it was one gunman (the one that was killed at the scene)...but aren't entirely sure yet (investigation ongoing). He didn't mention any gang activity. No active shooter currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Shooter identified: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Shooting cops is obviously always wrong, but i'm not surprised it's happening. And when you hear the people on tv talk about the shooting afterwards they only seem to add oil to the fire. They keep asking themselves why this is happening, yet sweep everything under the carpet whenever possible. If people would feel that if the police ###### up there are repercussions, these shootings wouldn't be happening. Now there is the perception that the cops just get away with evreything, so be ready for more shootings until the cops start looking at themselves. They always say Muslims should speak up when they see something fishy happening, yet they don't expect the same from the cops. That's ######ed up! DeusProto 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Just now, Stoffel said: Shooting cops is obviously always wrong, but i'm not surprised it's happening. And when you hear the people on tv talk about the shooting afterwards they only seem to add oil to the fire. They keep asking themselves why this is happening, yet sweep everything under the carpet whenever possible. If people would feel that if the police ###### up there are repercussions, these shootings wouldn't be happening. Now there is the perception that the cops just get away with evreything, so be ready for more shootings until the cops start looking at themselves. They always say Muslims should speak up when they see something fishy happening, yet they don't expect the same from the cops. That's ######ed up! Interesting you say that because if block folks started cleaning their communities up and reduced the amount of crimes they commit on the daily then police would not have any reason to interact with them as much as they do. But no, we're now being told black on black violence doesn't exist and then that's usually immediately followed by justifications for high crime in black communities. psmoked, Nogib and Ph1b3r0pt1c 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 (edited) Apparently Baton Rouge arrested 5 others for planning other attacks. Guess they missed at least one more. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baton-rouge-police-shooting-suspects-information/ Quote BATON ROUGE, La. -- The deceased suspect in the deadly shooting of Baton Rouge law enforcement officers appeared to have attacked police on his 29th birthday, CBS News has learned. The suspect has been identified as a black male named Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri, sources tell CBS News. He was born on July 17, 1987. One suspect was killed and two others might still be at large, Casey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office, previously said. However, Louisiana state police said Sunday afternoon there is "no active shooter" in Baton Rouge. The Baton Rouge Advocate reported that two other men were picked up across the Mississippi River in Addis and were being questioned by police as "persons of interest." Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoffel Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 7 minutes ago, trag3dy said: Interesting you say that because if block folks started cleaning their communities up and reduced the amount of crimes they commit on the daily then police would not have any reason to interact with them as much as they do. But no, we're now being told black on black violence doesn't exist and then that's usually immediately followed by justifications for high crime in black communities. Sure you keep all this talk up, and deny there is any issue with Law Enforcement at all. Cops will continue to be the victim. I'm not saying all cops are bad, but the good ones do cover up for the few bad ones (This should sound familiar, it's what people blame Muslims of doing all the time). That creates a perception cops are untouchable and no justice will ever come if a cop does something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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